Congress, accounting do not mix well

The recent change by the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) to its rule 157 effectively allows financial institutions to engage in pretend accounting. It states that the companies that trade securities can value those securities based on what they believe they would be worth in “normal” times, instead of what their actual value appears to

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